Fairphones in Australia 🇦🇺

Have smashed my screen ( in Melb here) and scratching my head about what to do now. Any chance you still have this?

Which Fairphone do you have?

I also want a fairphone, but as previous post mentioned

People say you can order from this site

use google translate

Hi Lidwien, I have FP3.

Thanks, will try google translate.

Hi guys,

Got my Fairphone 4 from Clove Technology in the UK.
Works like a charm. (VIC)

If Clove can mail it out to AUS, not sure why there is no small scale distributor here in Aus.
I would be keen to sign up and distribute in my state tbh!

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

It is presumably too complex and expensive to set up a reseller outside the EU given the various transport, warranty and product regulations. So that is handed over to ‘EU’ based resellers that can deal with the more complex international trade regulations.

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I’m sure like so many. I’d love to see these issues overcome. I am really interested in the earbuds…

#fp4
Hi,

I purchased my FairPhone 4 from Vireo, it arrived in Feb.

It is being used in Brisbane on the Optus network (Amaysim) and works perfectly except for MMS.

Any inbound MMS message shows up in Messages as downloading - but never actually downloads. Any outbound MMS message says it is sending - but never actually sends.

I have tried lots of things with Amaysim support without luck.

I was wondering if anyone else had come across this issue with a Fairphone previously?

Thanks for your help.

Hi Kelvin,

I was wondering which network you have been using your Fairphone 4 on in Vic?

I am in Brisbane and having trouble on the optus network.

Thanks for your help,
Glenn

Have you checked the APN settings for MMS are correctly set up?

Else here a discussion around the same issue maybe it helps somehow in case you used your SIM in an IPhone before

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Thanks so much - the issue you linked from rozcopta is exactly my issue. Yay - at least its not just me :slight_smile:

We have messed around heaps with the APNs as directed by the provider and they have said that they have reset their network database.

The provider also directed that we swap SIMs. Both SIMs could send/receive MMS when in my phone and neither SIM could send/receive MMS when in the FairPhone 4 (both SIMS are from the same provider). I don’t think either SIM has ever been used in an iPhone. Maybe a new SIM will help - but it seems like a long shot.

I noted that rozcopta tried a different provider with success - so that seems to point towards a specific Provider/Network with Fairphone4 compatibility issue.

I guess my next test is to try the Fairphone4 on a Telstra network :frowning:

fingers crossed a provider change will do the trick, so cool to see Fairphones work in Australia, gives me hope my FP3 will work in New Zealand when I visit my brother :wink:

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I’m using Optus with a Fairphone 4, and I’m also having problems getting it to send or receive MMS.
Even the Optus employees couldn’t get it to work, after playing around with APN settings and such.

Hi there,

I live in the UK and want to buy a Fairphone 4 but am going back home to Australia for 6 weeks soon (will put an Aus sim in & probably keep my Uk sim in as the second). I can see that the Fairphone seems to work pretty well in Aus but am still concerned about the mandatory IMEI registration, mentioned on the Fairphone website support page, when using the device for longer than a month in some countries. I can’t find any information about whether this applies in Australia online though and was wondering if anyone knows anything about this.

Thanks!

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Good point. As I have not checked back in here in years apparently after my intentions to set it all up! I’m about to go to Europe so was thinking of checking in.

Are Fairphone phones compatible with Australian network standards? Can we buy one in Australia?

Hi Andrew, welcome to our Community Forum :slight_smile:
I moved your question here as it will make it more likely to be noticed by others in your country. And you might already find some feedback from those who posted here before.

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Fair phone 4 works perfectly with Telstra. Also supports 5G. Currently Telstra are trialing 5G on all prepaid services.

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Think they will cap it back to 250Mbps after the trial :frowning: